Middle managers like to set targets and goals because it counts towards their bonus, and it looks less like they’ve got their dick in their hand when the boss comes calling.
It’s the same problem all over. Capitalism. You have people who don’t do work keeping the benefits from the work.
Most people aren’t going to give themselves stupid or useless metrics. Software people aren’t going to impose “tokens used” or “lines of code” metrics on themselves. They know those are stupid.
Some players are hoarding all the resources, and formed gangs to keep their power. Sucks. You can’t just shoot them because the other players whine, and you’ll probably get banned.
. The net result is that everyone has learned very quickly to praise executives on their visionary AI prowess, or they will be gunned down in the proverbial streets.
Once again, the people making the decisions are idiots.
Labor should keep the profits of its work. The owners just sit around and make bad decisions. Fuck them. They’d be lucky to walk away, if there was justice in this world.
Maybe we can work together with Gen z to overthrow the capitalist hell scape that has made a handful of people disgustingly rich while the world burns.
This shouldn’t be allowed. We need to stop letting corporations consolidate.
That aside, I don’t think I’ve ever used either of these. I used to use seamless for restaurant delivery, but not so much anymore. Shit’s too expensive.
I hope the ultra-rich lose everything. I hope they weep.
I thought this was the onion. This is real? What’s the opposite of eating the onion? Crying?
It’s a big multiplier on incompetence. It lets someone who’s kind of bad at their job produce a lot more bad than they could before.
You can use uv to manage python versions and deps now. You shouldn’t fuck around with your system python much.
I hope no one reads that top-down and comes away with “Don’t vote. Delay today”. That’d be a silly way to read it.
There are two main things that change people’s minds: Peer pressure, and trauma.
We’re social creatures and we take cues from people we trust. The right wing has done an excellent (and horrifying) job of creating unified in-groups for their followers. They have fox news. They have talk radio. They have churches. They have also demonized their opposition - “ivory tower elites”, “coastal elites”, queers, commies, etc. Many people will struggle to change their mind when everyone around them hasn’t.
There was a thing I was reading about a while ago, about flat-earthers. A bunch of them got shown a lot of evidence to contradict their beliefs. They all stuck to their flat-earth nonsense, except one of them. The guy who’d started dating someone sane, and hanging out with her friends. He changed his mind. In large part because he no longer saw the flat-earth community as such a vital part of his in-group. Or so the author argued.
The other way is trauma. If something really horrific happens to someone, they might reevaluate. But if they’re still in the same social groups, they’re likely to fall back into their old ways.
In the book “Dying of Whiteness”, the author interviewed a variety of people. Among them were gun violence survivors. There was one passage where a woman said something like, yeah, easy access to guns is why her son died. Maybe he shouldn’t have been able to just go get a gun and shoot himself. But, she said, she would never say that to her peers.
So, in short: No, not really. The social groups carrying maga identity are self-reinforcing. They’re all looking at their peers, who are all still maga.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe is a good comic about some of the same ideas, too.
They are prioritizing the financial interests
Sums of why a lot of things are bad
I think that’s my least favorite brand of Christian. Ignore all the sheep and goats, good Samaritan, give to the poor, parts to be smug little shits.
The other day one of the other devs messaged me with “you wanna see a dead body?”
He’d found some code that had been running in production since 2003, with so many problems and smells. Wasn’t in source control, either. Many hard coded plain text passwords.
Sadly, he had to touch it enough to fix a production outage.
People have foolish reasons for voting the way they do
I thought it was going to be pro-ai from the title, but I didn’t vote based on that assumption
Evaluating the whole argument is expensive. “Is the author a known idiot?” is a cheap heuristic to save effort.
Though that does remind me I had a long argument with some bizarre poster on here who insisted that the source of information is not important, and the unwell guy screaming under the bridge is just as viable a source as someone with a PhD on the subject.
“I would be disappointed if it comes in at 225 House seats,” Carville told host Bill Kristol. “I would rather the Republicans keep the House by five than the Democrats to win by five, because, if that happens, they’re hostage to the DSA.”
This person is a shithead.
At the risk of repeating myself, “dying of whiteness” was a pretty interesting and depressing look at this. Turns out a lot of people would rather suffer if it means those people have it worse.